monkey meat

English

Noun

monkey meat (uncountable)

1. (US, military slang) Tinned meat.
   • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 184:

     ‘You'd better get some sleep,’ I said. ‘We can eat cheese and monkey-meat.’

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see monkey,‎ meat.